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• Title:
  Free Will and Retribution Today
• Creator:
  De Caro, Mario;
  Marraffa, Massimo
• Description:
  The paper addresses two issues that have been recently debated in the literature on free will, moral responsibility, and the theory of punishment. The first issue concerns the descriptive project, the second both the substantive and the prescriptive project. On theoretical, historical and empirical grounds, we claim that there is no rationale for fearing that the spread of neurocognitive findings will undermine the ordinary practice of responsibility attributions. We hypothetically advocate two opposite views: (i) that such findings would cause the collapse of all punitive practices; (ii) that, on the contrary, such findings would open the way to more humane forms of punishment, which would be justified on purely utilitarian grounds. We argue that these views are both wrong, since whereas a sound punitive system can be justified without any reference to moral responsibility, it will certainly not improve the humaneness of punishment.
• Object availability:
  free access
• Rights:
  Copyright (c) 2017 Authors retain copyright and publishing rights to their articles in this journal, granting the journal the right to distribute them under the terms of the CC BY-SA 3.0 license.
• Date:
  2014.09.01
• Type:
  info:eu-repo/semantics/article;
  info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
• Language:
  English
• Source:
  ETHICS IN PROGRESS; Vol. 5 No. 2 (2014); 5-20;
  Ethics in Progress; Tom 5 Nr 2 (2014); 5-20;
  2084-9257
• Format:
  application/pdf
• Publisher:
  Adam Mickiewicz University Poznan
• Relation: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9360/9064
• Subject:
  Free will;
  moral intentions;
  responsibility problem;
  punitive practices revised;
  neurocognitive findings
• Identifier: http://pressto.amu.edu.pl/index.php/eip/article/view/9360 ;
  10.14746/eip.2014.2.2
• Data provider:
  Wydział Filozoficzny UAM
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• Type:
  text